Author: Hsun, Lu Publisher: Silk Pagoda Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Brief History of Chinese Fiction grew out of the lecture notes Lu Hsun used when teaching a course on Chinese fiction at Peking University between 1920 and 1924. In December 1923 a first volume was ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a comprehensive narrative history of Korean literature from its inception and the establishment of a royal Confucian academy in the seventh century, through a period during which most literatu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A century after Leo Tolstoy's death, the author of War and Peace is widely admired but too often thought of only with reference to his realism and moral sense. The many sides of Tolstoy revealed in th...
Description: Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children's literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children's Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far ga...
Author: Hutt, Michael James Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers ...
Author: Ying, Li-hua Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world litera...
Author: N/A Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and feature...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in thei...
Author: Lu, Ping Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Death is inevitably the end of a journey. Death also allows the journey to go back to the beginning."In this bold novel, one of Taiwan's most celebrated authors reimagines the lives of a legendary co...
Author: Hutchinson, Rachael Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited book looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Oth...
Author: Seiho, Toshoin No Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book includes the Hachi Genri, Seiho Gendai Budo Nyumon, (Eight Principles, Seiho's Introduction to Modern Budo); Sword and Psyche: Religious Influences on the Psychology of Japanese Swordsmanship...
Author: Molasky, Michael S. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through careful analysis of literary texts and attention to writers and works long excluded from Japan's postwar literary canon, this book introduces fresh perspectives on the occupation era.
Author: N/A Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and ae...
Author: Kim, Sok-pom Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is not...
Author: Cao Xueqin Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This translation was suggested not by any pretensions to range myself among the ranks of the body of sinologues, but by the perplexities and difficulties experienced by me as a student in Peking, when...
Author: Murakami, Fuminobu Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion...
Author: Huang, Yunte Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-cen...
Author: Yoshimi, Takeuchi Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationshi...
Author: Bhowmik, Davinder L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book traces the development of Okinawan literature over the tumultuous past century, during which the island experienced imperial subjectification, wartime annihilation, a protracted American occ...
Author: Sadana, Rashmi Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world-its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods-in light o...
Author: Matthew, Robert Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the literature of change and of the young, science fiction acts as a window to the minds of the young Japanese and to the uneasy alliance of the old and the new traditions therein.
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown ...
Author: Tickell, Alex Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis...
Author: Tickell, Alex Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis...
Author: Berry, Margaret Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten ...
Author: Williams, Ioan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding's own critical vi...
Description: The Western field of oriental studies and orientalism - criticised by Edward Said among others for encouraging the orient to be viewed in a particular way - has a counterpart in Russia and t...
Description: This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental ...
Author: Haboush, JaHyun Kim Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong com...
